One of the great attractions of patriotism - it fulfills our worst wishes. In the person of our nation we are able, vicariously, to bully and cheat. Bully and cheat, what's more, with a feeling that we are profoundly virtuous.
No man will make a great leader who wants to do it all himself or get all the credit for doing it.
Every great and deep difficulty bears in itself its own solution. It forces us to change our thinking in order to find it.
I never weary of great churches. It is my favorite kind of mountain scenery. Mankind was never so happily inspired as when it made a cathedral.
A constant struggle, a ceaseless battle to bring success from inhospitable surroundings, is the price of all great achievements.
It is only the enlightened ruler and the wise general who will use the highest intelligence of the army for the purposes of spying, and thereby they achieve great results.
Always keep your mind as bright and clear as the vast sky, the great ocean, and the highest peak, empty of all thoughts. Always keep your body filled with light and heat. Fill yourself with the power of wisdom and enlightenment.
In spite of everything I shall rise again: I will take up my pencil, which I have forsaken in my great discouragement, and I will go on with my drawing.
Character, in great and little things, means carrying through what you feel able to do.
It's an interesting combination: Having a great fear of being alone, and having a desperate need for solitude and the solitary experience. That's always been a tug of war for me.
Everything great in the world comes from neurotics. They alone have founded our religions and composed our masterpieces.
Defense is a definite part of the game, and a great part of defense is learning to play it without fouling.
When I am grown to man's estate I shall be very proud and great. And tell the other girls and boys Not to meddle with my toys.
I'm sorry that we have to have a Washington presence. We thrived during our first 16 years without any of this. I never made a political visit to Washington and we had no people here. It wasn't on our radar screen. We were just making great software.
I have tried to know absolutely nothing about a great many things, and I have succeeded fairly well.
There were times when I had great times with my brothers, pillow fights and things, but I was, used to always cry from loneliness.
Hate is too great a burden to bear. It injures the hater more than it injures the hated.
I was like a boy playing on the sea-shore, and diverting myself now and then finding a smoother pebble or a prettier shell than ordinary, whilst the great ocean of truth lay all undiscovered before me.
Bitter experience has taught us how fundamental our values are and how great the mission they represent.
Like me, the great majority of Americans wish both to preserve the traditional definition of marriage and to oppose bias and intolerance directed towards gays and lesbians.
We can be thankful to a friend for a few acres, or a little money and yet for the freedom and command of the whole earth, and for the great benefits of our being, our life, health, and reason, we look upon ourselves as under no obligation.
Architecture has recorded the great ideas of the human race. Not only every religious symbol, but every human thought has its page in that vast book.
Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.
We continue to recognize the greater ability of some to earn more than others. But we do assert that the ambition of the individual to obtain for him a proper security is an ambition to be preferred to the appetite for great wealth and great power.
A happy life must be to a great extent a quiet life, for it is only in an atmosphere of quiet that true joy dare live.
There's a lot of great movies that have won the Academy Award, and a lot of great movies that haven't. You just do the best you can.
When small men attempt great enterprises, they always end by reducing them to the level of their mediocrity.
Prejudice is a great time saver. You can form opinions without having to get the facts.
Lives of great men all remind us, we can make our lives sublime, and, departing, leave behind us, footprints on the sands of time.
Nurture your minds with great thoughts. To believe in the heroic makes heroes.
Character may be manifested in the great moments, but it is made in the small ones.
Ninety-nine per cent of the people in the world are fools and the rest of us are in great danger of contagion.
The principles that made this nation a great and powerful leader of the world, have not lost their meaning. They never will. We know we can bring this country back. I'm Mitt Romney. I believe in America. And I'm running for president of the United States.
Mr. Chairman, delegates. I accept your nomination for President of the United States of America. I do so with humility, deeply moved by the trust you have placed in me. It is a great honor. It is an even greater responsibility.
On some great and glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's desire at last, and the White House will be adorned by a downright moron.
The conscious mind may be compared to a fountain playing in the sun and falling back into the great subterranean pool of subconscious from which it rises.
The sound of a kiss is not so loud as that of a cannon, but its echo lasts a great deal longer.
Show me a great actor and I'll show you a lousy husband. Show me a great actress, and you've seen the devil.
This is the America that I love. This is a great people. We can do anything. We can achieve anything. We've got a government that has gotten in the way of the American people. We're going to change that in November.
When my mom ran for the Senate, my dad was there for her every step of the way. I can still hear her saying in her beautiful voice, 'Why should women have any less say than men, about the great decisions facing our nation?'
That business we started with 10 people has now grown into a great American success story.